55 Coolest Beard Shapes For Any Occasion

Beards come in a lot of different shapes and sizes. You can choose which style you want based on the type of look that you are hoping to portray. Many beards are an integral part of a specific style. For example, many people who dress in a hipster style will choose to wear their facial hair in a full bushy beard style. Their choice of facial hair will really help to enhance their look.

Different Beard Shapes to Change Your Look

Although you cannot actually change your face shape with a beard, the style that you choose can help to alter the way that people perceive your shape. For example, a pointy beard will make your face look longer, whereas wide and shallow styles can help your face to look rounder. Choosing the wrong style may actually exacerbate some of your worst features, so think carefully about your style before making a commitment.

1: Full Messy Beard

A full beard is an excellent expression of masculinity. If you don’t want to spend a long time grooming your beard, choose to make messiness part of your style. This looks really rugged.

2: Short Beard with W Mustache

A W-shaped mustache is one which goes up-down-up-down-up. It was a historical popular shape but is not seen as much these days. Although a W-shaped mustache can look great without a beard, it also looks fantastic with fuller facial hair.

3: Patchy Beard

Although some people used to worry about only being able to grow a patchy beard, patchy styles are becoming more popular than ever. Patchy styles also look great if your beard hair is starting to go gray or includes many different shades.

4: Long Stubble with a Gentle Curve

Long stubble is very hot in Hollywood. Keep your beard hair thin enough that the style is well-kept, but thick enough that the color shows on your face. Maintain a gentle curving shape on your face with a crisp edge.

5: Square Thin Goatee

Grow your facial hair around your mouth and on the bottom of your chin. Keep the rest of your face clean shaven. To make the style really distinct, fashion your facial hair into a thin and square style.

6: Goatee and Mustache with Patchy Disconnect

A wide Goatee style looks amazing when it is teamed up with a long, flat mustache. Either leave the two pieces of facial hair entirely unconnected or meet them up with a patchy thin disconnect. This produces a serious style of facial hair which is good for business men.

7: Patchy Stubble

Patchy stubble can help to give the wearer a gorgeous brooding look. Allow hair to grow everywhere that it naturally would on your face, including up into the hollows of your cheeks. Use a beard trimmer to prevent your stubble from growing out into a full beard.

8: Triangular Chin Puff

A chin puff is a style of beard that only grows on the very end of your chin. Join this hair up to your soul patch to create a distinct triangle shape. This style can actually help to make your face look rounder if you already have quite a pointy chin.

9: Groomed Stubble

Some people think that stubble looks really messy, but you can keep a stubble style tight and professional looking by keeping it groomed. Make sure that the edge of your style is a sharp clean line and trim away any stray facial hair. This look is so hot that it smolders.

10: Neck Coverage

Some beards stop at the bottom of the chin, whereas others carry on right down to the top of the neck. If your facial hair grows in this area, you can show it off well if you leave all of your hair at a stubble length. Showing off your neck coverage is perfect for a rugged look.

11: Box Beard

This full beard style has been shaped so that it looks Boxy. Trim stray hairs from the bottom and the sides of the style to make sure that it remains angular. This look can help to make your jaw seem more square if you have a rounder face.

12: Straggly Beard

A Straggly Beard is a classic hipster style. The hair has actually been carefully styled so that it looks a bit unkempt and messy. A Straggly hipster beard looks great when it is teamed up with perfectly groomed and manicured long hair.

13. Pointed Beard

A pointed beard shape can help to make your face shape look longer. Trim the sides so that the beard gently slopes downwards and into a rounded point. This style is the perfect example of a long beard look which is suitable for a businessman.

14. Heightened Cheekbones

High cheekbones are a very modelesque look, but not everyone is blessed with good bone structure. Nonetheless, you can make your cheekbones look much higher by the way that you style your facial hair. Growing hair in the hollows of your cheeks can help to make your cheekbones look higher.

15. Thin Beard with n shaped Mustache

A thin beard like this one is perfect if you are looking for an intermediate style to wear whilst you are growing longer facial hair. The N-shaped mustache (upside down U) shape will draw real attention to your lips. It is a perfect choice if you want them to look kissable.

16. Angled Chinstrap

A Chinstrap beard is one which follows the shape of your chin around, like the chin strap on a helmet. This example of a Chinstrap is very angled. Shaping your beard in this way can help to make your face and your jaw look more square.

17. Full Beard with Tapered Edges

This full beard style tapers away at the edges. It is thickest and fullest around the lowest parts of the chin and it gradually gets more patchy as it goes towards the center of the face. This style looks more intense than some patchier beards.

18. Barely There Beard

This is a style for those who are not quite ready to commit to full on facial hair. Most of the face remains clean shaven but there are carefully cultivated patches of fuzz. It is perfect for people who want to rock the moody or brooding look.

19. Thick Stubble with a Short Back and Sides Haircut

Really thick stubble looks perfect with a short back and sides style. Short hair on your head will actually help to make the hair on your face look much thicker and fuller.

20. Full Facial Fuzz

If you are lucky enough to be able to grow facial hair from a large number of follicles, you can let your hair grow into this style. It is a low maintenance look which seems to be very rugged and manly!

More Beard Shapes

Choose your new beard shape wisely and you will be able to really enhance your look. All of these styles can be adapted so that they are just right for you. If you don’t think that any of these types of facial hair are right for you then you should take a look at some of our other lists.